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FIRST DIVISION

[G.R. No. 1614. April 9, 1904. ]

THE UNITED STATES, Complainant-Appellee, v. ANACLETO EMBATE, Defendant-Appellant.

Eleuterio Rodriguez, for Appellant.

Solicitor-General Araneta, for Appellee.

SYLLABUS

1. CRIMINAL LAW; HOMICIDE; CAUSE OF DEATH. — In order to justify a conviction for

homicide it must appear that the acts committed by the accused were the cause of death.

DECISION

ARELLANO, C.J. :
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The defendant was charged with homicide, convicted, and sentenced to sic years and six
months’ imprisonment, with the accessories, to the payment of 500 pesos as damages, and
the costs. The dead child had been seriously ill with fever for three weeks. One day the child
had lain down on a damp floor and the defendant told him not to lie there but upon the mat.
As the child did not obey, the accused struck him upon the thighs with a slipper and pulled, or
as the complaint says, pushed and dragged him toward it, throwing him heavily upon the
floor. One or two days after the child died.

All the witnesses attribute the death of the child to the illness it was suffering; but the doctor,
who did nothing more than to examine the body and give his certificate as to certain bruises
on the thighs, in his testimony states that the body showed unequivocal signs of serious
disease of the heart, and that the bruises could not have caused the death of the child, but
might have contributed to accelerate the fatal result of that illness, which was a serious
affection of the heart. Being asked by the judge whether the gravity of the child’s illness,
owing to the affection of the heart, was such that it might have died without the blows which
were inflicted upon him, the witness replied that "if in the first place the age of the child is
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taken into consideration, and in the second its surrounding circumstances, its conditions was
 
such as to lead one to expect a fatal result, no physician being in attendance." c ra la w virtu a 1 a w lib ra ry

Upon being further questioned as to whether he believed that the blows inflicted upon the
child and which produced the bruises were the caused of its death, he replied that "as no
other approximate cause is known that the great excitement produced by those blows, it may
be inferred that they were the sole cause which precipitated the fatal result of the illness of
the child."
   
c ra la w virtu a 1 a w lib ra ry

We do not find in this testimony, given solely upon th e result of the examination of the body,
sufficient evidence as to the true cause of the death of the child. But it is true that the
accused did strike him for the purpose of inflicting punishment, and as by this he committed
a misdemeanor which should not go unpunished, and which can be punished in this same
 cause under the provisions of section 29 of General Orders, No. 58, we therefore acquit
Anacleto Embate of the charge of homicide and condemn him to fifteen days of arresto, with
such costs as would be chargeable in a prosecution before a justice of the peace. So
ordered.

Torres, Cooper, Mapa, McDonough and Johnson, JJ., concur.

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